Pakistan is hell, designed in America.

A friend is stuck at home with his sick child because most of the medical stores are closed in his neighbourhood of Lahore. Another is not talking on the phone because he is afraid someone may be taping his conversation. Another thinks that by giving the Rangers the license to "shoot to kill," the government will unleash a new wave of fury by the supporters of PPP, who may be joined by "the wretched of the earth" because they are disillusioned and disenfranchised anyway.

Eventually, the fault lines between different ideological forces within Pakistan have erupted with volcanic anger.

Stock markets are tumbling. The value of the rupee has declined. The government is trying all its sources to do some damage control.

The Islamists of the Cold War era were financed by America.

The secularists and neo-liberals of the Musharraf regime are financed by America.

Pakistan is hell, designed in America.